Mais Bloch avait déplu à mes parents pour d’autres raisons. Il avait commencé par agacer mon père qui, le voyant mouillé, lui avait dit avec intérêt: —«Mais, monsieur Bloch, quel temps fait-il donc, est-ce qu’il a plu? Je n’y comprends rien, le baromètre était excellent.» →
But Bloch had displeased my family for other reasons. He had begun by annoying my father, who, seeing him come in with wet clothes, had asked him with keen interest: "Why, M. Bloch, is there a change in the weather; has it been raining? I can't understand it; the barometer has been 'set fair.'"